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Post by Elizabeth on May 23, 2018 10:31:19 GMT
Do you know of how some of the world religions started and why? Like Christianity started with Jesus. What about the others?
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2018 15:06:54 GMT
Shakya en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShakyaSome scholars, including Michael Witzel[42] and Christopher I. Beckwith[43] argue that the Shakya were Scythians from Central Asia or Iran, and that the name Śākya has the same origin as “Scythian”. Indo-Scythians were known to have appeared later in South Asia in the Middle Kingdom period, around the 2nd century BCE to the 4th century CE.[44] They were vedic tribes, of central asian origin, and real buddha, whose name was siddhartha, was a prince of one of the kosala kingdom He was not at all against brahmanical order The Shakyas were by tradition sun worshippers,[29][30] who called themselves Ādicca nāma gottena ("kinsmen of the sun")[31] and descendants of the sun. As Buddha states in the Sutta-Nipāta, "They are of the sun-lineage (adiccagotta), Sakiyans by birth."[32][33] It is uncertain whether, by the time of Siddhartha's birth, Vedic Brahmanism had been adopted to any significant extent by the Shakyans. Scholar Johannes Bronkhorst argues, "I do not deny that many vedic texts existed already, in oral form, at the time when Buddha was born. However, the bearers of this tradition, the Brahmins, did not occupy a dominant position in the area in which the Buddha preached his message, and this message was not, therefore, a reaction against brahmanical thought and culture."[34] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakya#Annexation_by_KosalaThere were two central tribes who moved towards the subcontinent, before the mongol, turkic and other european races, the portugese and anglo saxon/britishers, there were alchon hunas, tocharians. Tocharians, worked for vedic brahmanism, though they adopted buddhism as their religion. And the bamiyan statue of buddha is found in gandhara kingdom. This was old vedic kingdom of the aryans. The central asian administrators/kshatriya had once again annexed the major states of the subcontinent, under their brahmanical orders. This completely proves that buddha was not at all anti brahamnical, which is portrayed in the texts. This neo buddhism has it's root during the british empire, and this was started by the writer of the Indian constitution en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit_Buddhist_movement
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2018 15:10:02 GMT
vedic sanskrit is entirely different than the sanskrit written by panini, also known as classical sanskrit.
In order to decipher aryan texts, vedic sanskrit must be known.
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Post by Διαμονδ on May 27, 2018 16:16:16 GMT
vedic sanskrit is entirely different than the sanskrit written by panini, also known as classical sanskrit. In order to decipher aryan texts, vedic sanskrit must be known. The names of these texts? I tried to start reading the Bhagavad-gita, but it's difficult !
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2018 16:29:30 GMT
There was a brahmin scholar, named Chanakya, who established maurya dynastyr, and installed chandragupta maurya as a king. His grandchild, named ashoka was the one who adopted non violence form of buddhism, because, he had a wife, named Devi, who was a buddhist, who had left, and after the battle of kalinga, he eventually dropped the brahmanical order of the war, and went to become 'yahweh' styled good samaritan king, eventually destroying entire sub continent. The non violent form of buddhism was spread by Ashoka. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devi_(wife_of_Ashoka)
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2018 16:32:11 GMT
vedic sanskrit is entirely different than the sanskrit written by panini, also known as classical sanskrit. In order to decipher aryan texts, vedic sanskrit must be known. The names of these texts? I tried to start reading the Bhagavad-gita, but it's difficult ! Rig Vedas is the only text en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RigvedaThe Rigveda (Sanskrit: ऋग्वेद ṛgveda, from ṛc "praise, shine"[1] and veda "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns. It is one of the four canonical sacred texts (śruti) of Hinduism known as the Vedas.[2][3] The text is a collection of 1,028 hymns and 10,600 verses, organized into ten books (Mandalas).[4] A good deal of the language is still obscure and many hymns as a consequence are unintelligible.[5][6][7] Gita etc are not aryan texts. They are not part of vedas.
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Post by ajay0 on May 29, 2018 16:41:31 GMT
Can you guys be specific? Like Buddhism. Isn't it just meditating? What's the point of it? Who created it? To take time off to relax basically?
Buddhism was created by the Buddha, and has its end the cessation of suffering.
Suffering is created by desires in the form of cravings or aversions, which when obstructed, results in psychological pain.
If you love a man or woman intensely and desire the person, and then find that the woman is interested in an another man , it obviously results in immense suffering and heartache due to non-attainment of one's hearts desire. Same goes for desire for any other object or thing.
Buddhism deals with the psychology of the mind, with its numerous desires, and points out the way to gain joy and peace which is independent of external circumstances and situations. Meditation,vipassana and mantra chanting is used to attain such peace and tranquility of mind.
There is no God or gods in Buddhism, just the objective study of the mind and the factors that lead to suffering, and the factors that lead to peace and joy , and application of it to attain peace and joy in practical life.
Buddhism also holds as its central teachings the equality of all sentient creatures, and does not accept the superiority or inferiority of any person . Each person is considered to have the Buddha nature within him or her, and hence everyone is considered a potential Buddha. The caste system was not sanctioned in Buddhism, along with Jainism and Sikhism for that matter.
Buddha also called for the transmission of the Buddhist knowledge to all of humanity without distinction, and this is why it is considered as the first missionary religion.
Emperor Ashoka the Great is creditted with spreading Buddhism all over the world from India in the third century b.c., in accordance with Buddha's teachings.
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